Postponement by weather helped some Bayakoa fillies
An extra week worked for most.
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An extra week worked for most.
HOT SPRINGS -- The winner found a perfectly easy pace to follow and took full advantage.
Churchill Downs Stakes Recap & Quotes: $155,568 Seneca Overnight Stakes at Churchill Downs Racetrack. Known as the home of the Kentucky Derby and the Kentucky Oaks, Churchill Downs Racetrack conducts Thoroughbred horse racing in Louisville, Kentucky, during three race meets in the Spring, September, and the Fall.
Horseplayers scheming for years to cash in on that ample trend might have an easy way to do it now. But betting against Life Is Good, or any of a few other 3-year-olds, is not as much a get-rich-quick scheme as it is another method of hedging or even bridge jumping. Borrowing a page from some foreign bookmakers, Circa Sports has taken the seven shortest-priced horses in its Derby futures and offered yes-no options on each of them. The “yes” prices match their odds to win May 1. The “no” prices are what players can lay to bet they will not win.
Sponsored by: Whoa Nellie wins the Pippin Stakes at Oaklawn on Jan. 25 Saturday's $75,000 Joseph E. Spanky Broussard, run at one mile and 70 yards at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans, La., drew a compact yet stellar field of three and 4-year-old fillies. To hear trainer Larry Jones tell it, Fox Hill Farms Inc's Whoa Nellie will only be getting started when they hit the finish line. “As we say, her name is Whoa Nellie, so getting her pulled up after her gallops and races is like 'Woah Nellie,'” Jones said. “She'll run all day and her forte is to go two turns.”